GermanyMercedes-Benz has announced MB.DRIVE ASSIST PRO for Germany, a driver-assistance system developed with NVIDIA that guides the car along a whole navigation route, city streets included. The release of 21 October 2026 says Mercedes will be the first carmaker to offer a system of this kind in Germany, in addition to China and the US. The system becomes orderable in Germany in the first half of 2027, and Mercedes says further details will follow before each market launch.
What the system does
With Mercedes navigation active, the driver switches the function on with a button on the steering wheel. The car then helps with lane changes, merging into the correct lane, turning at junctions, and braking and pulling away at traffic lights, as well as leaving motorways. Mercedes’s existing highway assistants cover motorway driving; this extends the same help to the rest of the route.
It is SAE Level 2. The driver must pay attention continuously and keeps control and responsibility at all times, and Mercedes describes the steering as a cooperative hands-on concept in which the driver can give steering input whenever they want.
Hardware and software
The system uses 27 sensors: ten cameras, five radars and twelve ultrasonic sensors. They feed a computer that handles up to 254 TOPS. The software combines Mercedes’s MB.OS with three NVIDIA parts: the Hyperion computing and sensor architecture, the Halos safety system and the Alpamayo software stack. Volvo’s point-to-point system is built on the same three, though Volvo has put its launch later in the decade.
Rollout and the rule behind it
Selected customers in Stuttgart and Munich, whose cars already carry the hardware and who are contacted individually, get the system over the air from the end of 2026. Owners of suitably equipped cars can install it by over-the-air update once it is orderable, and availability depends on the model. Mercedes plans a free trial month after the market launch for cars with the required equipment.
The approval rests on UN Regulation R171 for driver control assistance systems, which a UNECE working group adopted. Mercedes says that framework could allow the function in all EU markets without further regulatory approval.
